One of the main challenges faced by the video game industry is to give life to believable Non-Player Characters (NPCs) . Research shows that emotions play a key role in determining the behavior of individuals. In order to improve the believability of NPCs’ behavior, we propose in this article a model of the dynamics of emotions taking into account the personality and the social relations of the...

Purpose – Whereas much previous research focuses on the ways consumers strive to gain social approval, consumption that may result in social disapproval must be considered. In order to do so, the purpose of this paper is to explore consumers’ self-concepts within a risky consumption context, namely smoking. Self-concept discrepancies and the resulting emotions and coping strategies are identifi...

We investigated how another person's emotions about resource allocation decisions influence observers' resource allocations by influencing the emotions that observers anticipate feeling if they were to act in the same way. Participants were exposed to an exemplar who made a fair or unfair division in an economic game and expressed pride or regret about this decision. Participants then made thei...

Traditionally, emotions were often left out of consideration in the areas of cognitive, agent, and user modeling. Only few computational models of mood and depression have been developed [2]. However, emotions undoubtedly influence the behavior of humans. In recent years, there is a growing awareness that emotions play a role as well. Modeling of emotions is important for the development of age...

This paper presents an experimental study investigating the impact of dancing IVAs on human emotions. The results showed that watching a dancing IVA depicting different emotions significantly influenced human emotions. Additionally, the participant’s anger, sadness and happiness were significantly dependent on which dancing character’s emotion they watched. Moreover, the results of the study sh...